Welcome to Wrexham had a really particular visitor within the locker room throughout this week’s episode — and he introduced these signature Magic Mike strikes.
Channing Tatum accompanied Ryan Reynolds to a Wrexham AFC soccer (soccer in Wales) sport in the course of the Thursday, Might 29, episode of the FX docuseries.
“I used to be simply doing my standard match routine and Ryan walks in, and he’s introduced one other good friend with him,” Wrexham midfielder Elliot Lee recalled. “From minute one, it was like we had been simply having banter like he was one of many lads and [we were] joking round.”
The athletes performed Ginuwine’s “Pony” — a music made well-known by Tatum in 2012’s Magic Mike — when the actors walked into the locker room. Tatum, being a great sport, began dancing to the music — a lot to the enjoyment of all of the gamers.
Reynolds, 48, advised the workforce, “He’ll drink you beneath the desk,” when strolling Tatum across the room. “I’m not truly even joking,” Reynolds added.
Lee famous that assembly stars like Tatum within the locker room is “completely different” from every other workforce. “It’s simply a part of Wrexham,” he added.
Tatum attended the sport with Reynolds after assembly the gamers. Though Wrexham tied Cambridge United, Tatum nonetheless acquired an opportunity to exit with the boys.

“Ryan was scheduled to depart straight after the Cambridge match however we heard that Channing was taking pictures a industrial with us on Monday, so we knew he was staying across the city,” Lee mentioned. “Clearly, it being my thirtieth celebration that night time, we took the chance to ask Channing to the bash.”
Lee teased that it was “an ideal night time” however didn’t provide any particular particulars. He did say it will “stay lengthy within the reminiscence,” nonetheless.
Tatum teamed up with Wrexham to movie a ST?Okay Chilly Brew Espresso’s Tremendous Bowl LIX industrial. (The espresso model is a Wrexham workforce sponsor.)
Within the advert, Tatum teaches the soccer workforce tips on how to have higher “celebration dances” utilizing the chilly brew. By the tip of the industrial, everyone seems to be dancing to the 1990 hit “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everyone Dance Now)” by C+C Music Manufacturing facility.
“Channing Tatum is definitely magic, although,” Reynolds gushed in his confessional. “Manner again in 2006 — virtually 20 years in the past — he danced in a film. He’s 26 years outdated and other people had been like, ‘This child can dance.’ So, he made a bunch extra films together with a pair a couple of sure magic Mike, possibly you’ve heard of them?”
Reynolds continued, “Now, he’s virtually 45. I imply, [the dancing is] all him. No wires, no CGI. Simply solely made from magic. He’s boneless, he had no bones! Discuss constructed to final. You may’t dance like that in your 40s.”
Reynolds additionally supplied some perception into Tatum’s mysterious night time out with the Wrexham gamers.

“I’m gonna learn you Channing’s texts to me on the night time in query,” Reynolds mentioned.
“Oops! I might need had an excessive amount of enjoyable with the boys. We positively acquired extra unfastened than I used to be ever planning to. It occurred and I’m sorry,” Tatum apparently wrote in a number of textual content messages. “It’s positively going to be on the Web.”
Reynolds concluded, “F***ing magic Mike.”
New episodes of Welcome to Wrexham premiere on FX Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and are streaming by way of Hulu the next day.